Author Jeff Foust

This presidential transition has been, in many respects, unlike any other in recent history. President-elect Donald Trump has eschewed the traditional post-electionChris Shank, in this 2005 NASA portrait...

For advocates of a NASA authorization bill, the refrain is once again the same as fans of a losing sports team: Wait ’till next year.
In the final hours of the 115th Congress Dec. 9, the Senate passed by unani...

a college lecture gone viral cost the ula exec his job. an investigation finds the incendiary comments were just hot air.
It was the recording that shook up the space industry. In mid-March, Brett Tobe...

Long before Spaceport America took shape in the desert of southern New Mexico, Daniel Hicks was thinking about a spaceport there.Daniel Hicks. Credit: Spaceport America“About 16 years ago, I started th...

SpaceX won a NASA contract Nov. 22 to launch an Earth science satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in 2021.
The award, with a total cost to NASA of $112 million, is for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean ...

A principal in a venture capital fund whose investments include SpaceX has joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team for the Department of Defense.Trae Stephens. Credit: Founders fund ...

The transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named a congressional staffer and former NASA official to lead the “landing team” overseeing transition planning for the space agency.Chris Sh...

Anew report recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration do more to assist commercial spaceports in determining their insurance requirements, but stops short of calling for regulatory changes regarding c...

It’s been more than a quarter century since NASA last launched a dedicated Venus mission, the Magellan radar mapper. Could the key to winning funding for a new mission be… a hashtag? Well, it can’t hurt.

For lunar exploration advocates, the moon appears closer now than at any time since Obama took office
On Nov. 14, the public celebrated the “supermoon,” an astronomical phenomenon where the full moon appears a...

The commercial space industry hopes the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pursues regulatory reforms and continues existing efforts to support the industry’s growth.
A panel at the Spacecom c...

In the days since Donald Trump’s election, there’s been intense speculation about what a Trump administration will do about space.
Policy statements issued by the Trump campaign ahead of the election provided ...